The Caribbean Safety and Security Net was founded decades ago as a Ham and SSB radio resource for cruisers and was focused on alerting the cruising community to danger areas, such as the coast of ...

Bethany Smith, 18, is thought to have died in the hospital from multiple injuries after the accident on board luxury 180 foot schooner Germania Nova, which was berthed ...

Following recent media reports about the finding of deceased German sailor Manfred Fritz Bajorat in the Philippines last week, and subsequent misleading speculation regarding the involvement of the ...

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If you are preparing to make a passage offshore on a boat with which you are not familiar, whether as crew or skipper, the pre-departure check list is what lies between a safe, seamanlike passage and ...

Brian and Karen Trautman and their daughter Sierra will be well known as one of YouTube’s most popular cruising vlogers. They have been cruising for 15 years and creating high quality videos for 13.

At the Annapolis sailboat show last week, Beneteau introduced two new models to their Oceanis line, the 47 and 52. The new designs from the Finot Conq design studio represent the eighth generation of ...

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I am lucky enough to have had the chance to do a fair amount of blue water cruising, and along the way have sailed with some really great sailors and seamen and women. Even after 100,000 miles, you ...

Food for thought from the archives of Yachting World by Elaine Bunting. Efficient rescues mean more yachts are being abandoned only to be found floating later. Should people ...